Calvinist and Calvinist-Leaning Theologians on Evolutionary Old-Earth Creation

[John Bauer]

You might be surprised to learn: Prominent Calvinist or Calvinist-friendly theologians or scholars who have either regarded as permissible, cautiously supported, or adopted any kind of evolutionary old-earth creationism (e.g., evolutionistic creation or theistic evolution):

• Charles Hodge
• Asa Gray
• James McCosh
• Henry B. Smith
• W. G. T. Shedd
• A. A. Hodge
• Charles W. Shields
• A. H. Strong
• Abraham Kuyper
• George Frederick Wright
• Francis Patton
• James Iverach
• James Orr
• B. B. Warfield
• Herman Bavinck
• Karl Barth
• Emil Brunner
• Herman Dooyeweerd
• G. C. Berkouwer
• Herman Ridderbos
• Anthony A. Hoekema
• Meredith G. Kline
• Henri Blocher
• Denis R. Alexander
• Timothy Keller
• Alister McGrath
• Alvin Plantinga
• Oliver D. Crisp

 

[John Bauer]

For example:

Evolutionistic creation presupposes a God who first prepares the plan and then omnipotently executes it; Darwinism teaches a mechanistic origin of things, which excludes all plan or specifications or purpose.

Abraham Kuyper, "Evolution (1899)," in James D. Bratt, ed., Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader (Eerdmans, 1998), 437.